US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Jan. 27 for "API for restructuring a post-CTS clock tree to include user-identified clock instances" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,362, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"API for restructuring a post-CTS clock tree to include user-identified clock instances" was invented by Andrew Mark Chapman (Milton, Great Britain), Ruth Patricia Jackson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock tree generated through clock tree synthesis (CTS) for an integrated circuit (IC) design is stored in memory. The IC design includes a post-CTS clock tree having a plurality of clock nets. An application programming interface (API) implements a set of commands to allow a us...